My daily selection of the most interesting news on the internets:
- The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU & U.S. I nnovation and Competitiveness – In this report, ITIF assesses the global innovation-based competitiveness of 36 countries and the European Union (EU)-15 region, the EU-10 region, the EU-25 region, and the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) region, both as they currently stand and in terms of progress in the last decade. We focus primarily on comparisons between the United States and Europe and comparisons between the United States and European Union and selected other nations around the world to see which is the most competitive in the new innovation economy.
- The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S. – BusinessWeek – "We live in an era of rapid innovation." I'm sure you've heard that phrase, or some variant, over and over again. The evidence appears to be all around us: Google, Facebook, Twitter, smartphones, flat-screen televisions, the Internet itself. But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? What if outside of a few high-profile areas, the past decade has seen far too few commercial innovations that can transform lives and move the economy forward? What if, rather than being an era of rapid innovation, this has been an era of innovation interrupted? And if that's true, is there any reason to expect the next decade to be any better?
- our feel good innovation engine « orgtheory.net – A discussion about whether the U.S. has lost its innovative umph has been roiling across the internets in reaction to Business Week’s provocative cover story.
- In Defence Of The Lisbon Agenda – Asking whether Lisbon has really been "a flop", Mettler says "the two key targets of the Lisbon Agenda, a 70% employment rate and R&D spending of 3% of GDP, have not been met by all member states". Nevertheless, "that 'failure' overshadows two positive aspects," she explains. "Firstly, several member states have met these targets. Eight EU member states have employment rates in excess of 70%, while two have managed to reach the ambitious R&D goals." (…) "Secondly, the targets themselves have been extremely helpful in shifting and guiding the policy debate."
- Associations, networks, alliances, etc.: making sense of the emerging global higher education landscape – Over the last decade an assortment of new or substantially transformed stakeholders has emerged. ‘Established’ national and international stakeholders are having to take into account ‘global network’ universities like New York University and the University of Nottingham, Google (est., 1998), private firms like Thomson Reuters, a more assertive European Commission (especially the Directorate Generals of Education and Culture, and Research), and a myriad of regional and international consortia…
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